No question is "too dumb" for a beginners' list.
23 . You look up this sort of information in the file /etc/services .
IF you want to connect to a different port, you specify that on the command
line. For example,
telnet somehost 25
will attempt to connect to port 25 (smtp) on somehost.
At 05:28 PM 7/17/00 +0530, you wrote:
>sorry if the question seems too dumb...
>
>when i say telnet and a hostname which port does it normally connect to
>i.e which is the default port that i connect to.
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